{"nrhp_refnum":"96000136","name":"Baker, Sebastian, Stone House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"10 Dug Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rochester","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.83331829400004,"lon":-74.24283558360571,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-02-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural farm complex at 10 Dug Road in Rochester, Ulster County, New York, centered on a one-and-one-half story vernacular stone house built about 1790, with a Dutch barn, granary, horse barn, outbuildings, a family cemetery and ruins on a 167-acre parcel.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an outstanding regional example of late-eighteenth-century linear stone dwelling architecture typical of the Hudson Valley and Ulster County. The farm is also noted as a rare example of continuous family ownership across three centuries. The Dutch barn, granary, horse barn, cemetery and stone walls add to its significance.","narrative":"On Dug Road in the town of Rochester, Ulster County, a whitewashed stone farmhouse built about 1790 anchors a 167-acre farm. The house is a linear, one-and-one-half story building of limestone and fieldstone, six bays long, with a steep wood-shingled roof and thick walls. A two-story frame wing was added in 1914 by Jacob H. Baker to house tourist boarders arriving by the Ontario and Western Railroad. The farm also holds a Dutch barn from about 1840, a granary, a horse barn, early twentieth-century outbuildings, a family cemetery, and the ruins of a sawmill and an earlier house. The property was listed for architecture, as a strong regional example of late-eighteenth-century stone dwellings in the Hudson Valley. Its history is also notable because the Baker family has owned the land continuously across three centuries, descending from Sebastian Baker, who divided the homestead between his sons in 1842.","period_of_significance":"ca.1790 - ca.1914","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular (OTHER/vernacular), with a Federal-style plan","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling with agricultural outbuildings and secondary structures; the form lists current functions as domestic and agricultural.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.55154-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/96000136.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000136/bd2c6df6b9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000136/bd2c6df6b9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Larry Arvidson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1050061_Sebastian_Baker_Stone_House_C,_10_Dug_Rd.,_Rochester,_Ulster_Cnty,_NY.png\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Arvidson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P1050061_Sebastian_Baker_Stone_House_C,_10_Dug_Rd.,_Rochester,_Ulster_Cnty,_NY.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315246","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Baker_Stone_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7442367"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/baker-sebastian-stone-house-96000136/"}